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GENEALOGY OF THE FULLER FAMILY, 

1 638- 1 902. 

By ARTHUR BUCKMINSTER FULLER. 



REPRINTED FROM THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL 

REGISTER FOR OCTOBER, 1 859, WITH AqDITIONS BY 

EDITH DAVENPORT FULLER. 



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PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. 



In reprinting this pamphlet two numbers have been given to 
each individual born with the name of Fuller. The number 
in parentheses before the name designates the person, and 
the smaller number following the Christian name shows the 
generation. 

The births, marriages, and deaths which have taken place 
among the descendants of (92) Timothy^ Fuller since the pub- 
lication of the first edition have been added, and also some facts 
relating to other lines. 



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TI103IAS FULLER 

ASD HIS DESOEN'DANTS, 



[From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 

for October, 1S59.] 



In 1638 Thomas Fullku came 

from England to America upon a 

tour of observation, intending, after 

he should have gratified his curiosity 

Ijy a survey of the wilderness world, 

to return. While in Massachusetts, 

he listened to the preaching of IJev. 

Thomas Shepard, of Cambridge, who 

was then, in the midst of a splendid 

career of religious effort and eloquence, 

the echo of which, after the lapse of 

two centuries, has scarcely died away. 

Through his influence Thomas Fuller 

was led to take such an interest in the 
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of the second a castle or. , , i i. ,. . , ,. . 

the land oi liturgies and religious 

formulas, which he had left behind, became less attractive to 

him than the " forest aisles " of America, where God might be 

freely worshiped. He has himself left on record a metrical 

statement of the change in his views which induced him to re- 

* These arms have been in this family for a long time, but the 
compiler has no other proof that they belong to this branch of the 
Fuller family. Burke in his General Armory describes the same 
arms as belonging to a Fuller family on the Isle of Wight. 




ARMS ()V KILLEK. 



4 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

solve to make his home in ]Massachiisetts. These verses were 
collected by the Kev. Daniel Fuller of Gloucester from aged 
persons, who declare that the author was urged, but in vain, to 
publish them. Now, after the lapse of two centuries, we will ' 

favor the world with a few of them, which will serve as I 

a sample : — 

" In thirty-eight I set my foot 
On this New England shore ; 
My thoughts were then to stay one year, 
And here remain no more. 

But, by the preaching of God's word 

By famous Shepard he, 
In what a woful state I was, 

I then began to see. 

Christ cast his garments over me, \ 

And all my sins did cover : 
More precious to my soul was he 

Than dearest friend or lover. 

His pardoning mercy to my soul 

All thought did far surmount ; 
The measure of his love to me 

Was quite beyond account. 

Ascended on his holy hill, 

I saw the city clear, 
And knew 'twas New Jerusalem, 

I was to it so near. 

I said, My mountain does stand strong, 

And doubtless 'twill forever; 
But soon God turned his face away, 

And joy from me did sever. 

Sometimes I am on mountains high, 

Sometimes in valleys low : — 
The state tliat man's in here below, 

Doth oft-times ebb and flow. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 5 

I heard tlie voire of God by man, 

Yet s()rr<.)ws lield me fast; 
But these my joys did far enoeed ; 

God heard my cry at last. 

Satan has tiling liis darts at me, 

And thought the day to win ; 
Because he knew he liad a friend 

Tliat always dwelt within. 

But surely God will save my soul ! 

And, though you trouble have, 
My children dear, who fear the Lord, 

Your souls at death he'll save. 

All tears shall tlien be wiped away; 

And joys beyond compare, 
Wliere Jesus is and angels dwell, 

With every saint you'll share." 

If these verses do not give evidence of the highest poetical 
culture and finish, they at least hand down through the centu- 
ries the reason which induced Lieut. Thomas Fuller (so we find 
him styled in the probate proceedings on his will) to purchase 
and settle upon a large tract of land in New Salem (afterwards 
Middleton) ; and this land is still mainly owned and improved 
by his descendants. He built a house on it near a stream, about 
half a mile below Middleton Pond, and about the same distance 
west from Will's Hill. He did not reside continuously at Mid- 
dleton, but for some years dwelt in Woburn, and was one of 
the first settlers and most active citizens of that town, as its 
records manifest. He died in the year 1698, bequeathing his 
remaining land to his youngest son Jacob, having previously, 
in his lifetime, conveyed lands to his other children by way 
of advancement. Jacob Fuller was born in 1655, and con- 
tinued to reside on the farm in Middleton till his death in 
1731. He married Mary Bacon, and they had five children. 
His fifth child and second son, likewise named Jacob, 



6 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

was Ijorn in 1700, and died October 17, 1767, He married 
Abigail Ilolton, and tliey had ten children — six sons and four 
daughters. 

Timothy Fuller, the sixth child and third son of the second 
Jacob Fuller, was born at Middleton, on the 18th of May, 1739, 
He entered Harvard University at the age of nineteen, and 
graduated in 1760. His name over that date is still (1859) seen 
on the corner-stone of one of the college buildings. He ajiplied 
himself to theology, and in March, 1767, received from the 
church and town of Princeton, Mass., a nearly unanimous invi- 
tation to become their pastor, having previously supplied their 
pulpit for two years. Here he was ordained the first minister 
of Princeton, 9th September, 1767. In 1770 he married Sarah 
Williams, daughter of Rev. Abraham Williams of Sandwich, 
Mass. He was successful as a preacher, and his people were 
united in him till the war of the revolution broke out. He 
declared at the time, and ever afterwards, that he was friendly 
to the principles of the revolution, and anxiously desired that 
his country should be liberated from its dependence on the 
British crown ; but he was naturally a very cautious man, and 
believed this result would be certain to come, if the country 
reserved itself for action till its strength was somewhat matured, 
and its resources in a better state of preparation. Resistance at 
the time he believed premature, and thought that we were hazard- 
ing all by too precipitate action. Such views, however, were by no 
means congenial to the heated zeal of his townsmen. He first gave 
dissatisfaction by a discourse he preached to the " minute men," 
at the request of the town, choosing for his text 1 Kings xx. 11 : 
" Let not him that girdeth on the harness boast himself as he 
that putteth it off." He was not a man to swerve from his own 
cool and deliberate views through the pressure of public opinion ; 
and his persistence in them led to his dismissal from the past- 
orate in 1776, by an ex parte council, his parish refusing to agree 
Avith him upon a mutual council. He removed soon after to 
Martha's Vineyard, and preached to the society in Chilmark 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 7 

till the war was ended. lie then removed to Middleton, and 
brought a suit against the town of Princeton for his salary. 
His dismissal had been irregular, and the law of the case was 
in his favor; but the jury had too much sympathy with the 
motives that actuated the town to render a verdict in his behalf. 
It was supposed this result would be crushing to him, and that 
lie would not be prepared to pay costs recovered by the town ; 
and some were malignant enough to anticipate with pleasure 
the levy of the execution. But they were disappointed ; for, 
when the sheriff called upon him, he coolly counted out the 
amount of the execution in specie, which, with his habitual caution, 
he had carefully hoarded to meet this very exigency. He soon 
after returned to Princeton, where he applied himself to the 
careful education of his children, in connection with the culti- 
vation of a large farm, which embraced within its bounds the 
"Wachusett mountain. 

None of his children attended any other than this family 
school ; all were carefull}'^ taught, and several fitted for college 
at home. Those in the town who had been opposed to him 
soon became reconciled and even warmly attached. He was 
very active in town affairs, and represented Princeton in the 
convention which approved and adopted the present federal 
constitution. He himself, Avith his characteristic firmness, voted 
against the constitution, mainly on the ground of its recognition 
of slavery; and he has left his reasons on record. In 1796, he 
removed to Merriraac, N. H., where he continued to reside 
till his decease, on the morning of the 3d of July, 1805, at the 
age of sixty-seven, leaving a wife and ten children to mourn his 
loss. His wife deserves more than a passing notice, as she 
must have had no small influence in moulding the character of 
the children. Her father, Rev. Abraham Williams, was a 
person of genuine piety, a warm patriot, and an ardent friend 
of the revolution. His letter accepting his call at Sandwich, 
which is still carefully preserved, breathes a pure Christian 
spirit ; as also a subsequent communication, in which he 



8 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

expresses a willingness to dispense with a portion of his salary to 
accommodate himself to the narrow means of his people. His 
will is likewise very characteristic. He emancipates his slaves, 
and requires his children to contribute to their support if they 
shall be destitute ; and " deprives any child who may refuse to 
give bonds to perform this duty of his share of the estate, giving 
to such cliild in lieu thereof a new Bible of the cheapest sort, 
hoping that, by the blessing of Heaven, it may teach him to 
do justice and love mercy." He married Anna Buekminster, 
daughter of Col. Joseph Buekminster, Jr.,* of PVamingham, 
and aunt of the distinguished clergyman. Rev. Joseph Buekmin- 
ster, D.D., of Portsmouth, N. H., who Avas father of Rev. Joseph 
Stevens Buekminster, of Boston. Rev. Mr. Williams graduated 
from Harvard University in 1744, and died 12th of August, 1784, 
aged fifty-seven. His daughter Sarah, wife of Rev. Timothy 
Fuller, possessed a vigorous understanding and an honorable 
ambition, which she strove to infuse into her children. She 
died in 1822. Rev. Timothy Fuller left five daughters and five 

* The following, taken from the " Boston Transcript," December, 
1899, is of interest as it concerns several ancestors. 

" Lawson. Sarah Lawson was daughter of John and Sarah 
(Simpson) Lawson of Boston, and granddaughter of Savil Simpson of 
Boston, Framingham and Hopkinton. She was born 1702, married to 
Colonel Joseph Buekminster June 18, 1719, at Hopkinton, Mass., 
where her grandfather, Savil Simpson, owned 500 acres of land which 
he had bought from the heirs of Colonel William Crowne, in what 
was then included in Framingham, but later was set off to Hopkinton, 
and is now included in the town of Ashland. She was named in her 
grandfather Savil Simpson's will, who died Aug. 22, 1725 ; will pro- 
bated January 3, 1726. Colonel Joseph Buekminster, Jr., was the 
son of Colonel Joseph and Martha (Sharp) Buekminster ; his mother, 
Martha Sharp, being the daughter of John and Martha (Vose) Sharp 
of Muddy River (Brookline). Sarah Lawson Buekminster died Sept. 
11, 1747, having borne her husband seven children. He married, 
second, widow Hannah Kiggell, who bore him one son. Colonel 
Joseph Buekminster, Jr., received his commission in 1738-39, and 
was prominent in town affairs for nearly forty years. He died May 
15, 1780, aged eighty-three." 

M. M. W[oolford]. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 9 

sons. The sons were Timothy, Abraham Williams, Henry 
Holton, William Williams, and Elisha ; of these we shall speak 
more in detail. 

TiMOTHV P^'uM-KR, the fourth child and eldest son, attained 
distinction. The chief steps in his career may he thus summa- 
rily stated : He was born in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, 
11th of July, 1778; grad. at Harvard College with the 
second honors in his class, 1801. He was obliged to Avork his 
way through college, and be absent much in teaching ; but such 
were his talent, industr}^ and scholarship, that it is believed he 
would have borne off the tirst honors had he not countenanced 
a rebellion of the students, caused by certain college rules 
regarded as oppressive. He was alwaj^s an ardent advocate for 
freedom and the rights of man, and even while in college made 
himself marked as a Democratic Republican, in contradistinction 
to the Federalists. After graduating, he taught in Leicester 
Academy, till he had acquired funds to complete his professional 
study of the law, which he did in the ofKce of Hon. Levi Lincoln, 
of Worcester, and afterwards practised law in Boston. He was 
a member of the Mass. Senate from 1813 to 1816; Representative 
in Congress from 1817 to 1825 ; Speaker of the Mass. House of 
Representatives in 1825 ; a member of the Executive Council in 
1828 ; and died suddenly of Asiatic cholera, at his residence in 
Groton, Mass., October 1, 1835. 

Mr Fuller's published writings are, "An Oration delivered 
at Watertown, July 4, 1809; " "Address before the Massachu- 
setts Peace Society, 1826;" "The Election for the Presidency 
considered, by a Citizen ; " Speeches on the Seminole War, 
Missouri Compromise, &c. . 

Hon. Timothy Fuller married Margaret Crane, daughter of 
Maj. Peter Crane, of Canton, Mass., May 28, 1809. She died 
Sunday morning, July 31, 1859. A character like hers, so 
sweet and amiable, full of sentiment and affectionate benig- 
nity, delighting in flowers and every beautiful type of the 
great Creator, is, indeed, one of the fairest ornaments of 



10 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

of existence. Her life was one of habitual self-denial and 
devotion to duty in the various relations of her lot. We 
know not that she ever made an enemj' ; and, on the con- 
trar}', we believe that she has drawn towards herself the 
heart of every one with whom she has come in contact. In 
youth she was possessed of great personal beauty, and was 
much admired in Washington when her husband was in Con- 
gress. She had a rare conversational gift, aided by a lively 
fancy and a well-stored mind, and above all she was a sincere 
and <levoted Christian. 

Margaret Fuller, the first child of this union, was born 
May 23, 1810, in the house now (1902) numbered 71, Cherry 
St., Cambridge. After her father's death she w^as her mother's 
chief stay; for, though of very little business experience, and 
with a natural aversion to financial affairs, she had a strength 
of mind and courageous firmness which stayed up her mother's 
hands when the staff on which she had leaned was stricken 
away. It had been the life-long desire of Margaret to go 
to Europe and complete her culture there, and arrange- 
ments with this view had been matured at her father's 
death. Her patrimony would have still sufficed for the desired 
tour ; but she must have left her mother sinking under a sense 
of helplessness, with young children to educate. Margaret, 
after a struggle between a long-cherished and darling project 
and her sense of duty, resolved to give up her own brilliant 
hopes and remain with her mother. She applied herself per- 
sonally to the academic training of the children, who learned 
from her the rudiments of the classic languages and the first 
reading of some of their great authors. We extract from the 
" Mount Auburn Memorial " the following : 

" Her wonderful power of conversation lives in memory alone. 
It is said that there has been no woman like her in this respect 
since Madame de Stael ; but while Margaret Fuller's conversa- 
tion, in eloquence and effect, in sparkle and fiow, was like 
that of the gifted French woman, it had a merit which the 



Historical Isiotices of the Fuller Family. 11 

latter could not claim. There is hardly upon record one 
with her power to draw out others. She not only talked 
surprisingly herself, but she made others do so. While talking 
with her they seemed to make discover}- of themselves, to 
wonder at their own thoughts, and to admire the force and 
aspiration of their character — hitherto latent to their own con- 
sciousness. She made those who conversed with her forget to 
admire her in wondering at themselves. As a friend, Margaret 
Fuller Ossoli is tenderly and devoutly remembered by those wlio 
knew and loved her. What an assemblage they would make if 
gathered together! The rich and the refined, the poor and 
the humble, the men and women of genius struggling with 
destiny, and demanding audience for new and noble thoughts, 
— all these found in her a confidant to soothe their .sor- 
rows, and a friend to encourage and point onward. There 
was but one thing needed to admit to the friendship of 
Margaret, and that was a pure purpose and a noble aim. Those 
who did not possess this instinctively shunned her. She had a 
penetrating eye to see through, and a power of satire to strip 
off, masks and pretences. She hated shams, hypocrisies, false- 
hoods, and outside show. Characters not genuine strove to 
keep at a safe distance from her ; they dreaded the sting of 
her satire, the eagle look of her eye, and the eloquence of her 



tongue." 



Soon after her tragic death in 1850 her memoirs were written 
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, William Henry 
Channing, James Freeman Clarke and others, and were published 
in two volumes, which were later re-edited by her brother Rev. 
Arthur Buckminster Fuller. Since then her life has been written 
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the " American JMen of 
Letters " series, and by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in the " Famous 
Women " series. 

On July 19, 1901, the anniversary of her death, by the efforts 
of several distinguished women of New York a memorial pavilion 
and tablet Avere dedicated to her memory on Fire Island, near 



12 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

the spot where the ship Elizabeth was wrecked and she and 
her husband and child were drowned. In spite of the efforts 
of her family and friends her body and that of her husband were 
never recovered. 

On May 23, 1902, her 92d birthday, the house in which she 
was born in Cherry Street, Cambridge, was dedicated, under 
the name of " Margaret J'uller House," to the work of a branch 
of the Young Women's Christian Association. 

Of Eugene Fuller, the second child, the following notice 
taken from the annual obituary college record, by Joseph 
Palmer, M.D., pubhshed by the " Boston Daily Advertiser," 
gives some account : — 

"Eugene Fuller, the eldest son of Hon. Timothy and Mar- 
garet (Crane) Fuller, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Maj' 14, 
1815. After leaving college in 1834, he studied law, partly at 
the Dane Law School in Cambridge, and partly in the office of 
George Frederick Farley, Esq., of Groton, Mass. After his ad- 
mission to the bar, he practised his profession two years in 
Charlestown, Mass. He afterwards went to New Orleans, and 
was connected with the public press of that city. He spent 
several summers there, and, some two or three years ago was 
affected by sun-stroke, which resulted in softening of the 
brain, and ultimately in a brain fever, which came very near 
proving fatal, and left him in a shattered conditon. His friends 
hoping that medical treatment at the north might benefit him, 
he embarked, with an attendant, on board the Empire City for 
New York. When one day out, June 21, 1859, his attendant 
being prostrated with seasickness, Mr. Fuller was left alone, 
and was not afterwards seen. He must have been lost over- 
board." 

The second son of Hon. Timothy Fuller was William 
Henry Fuller. He applied himself to mercantile pursuits, 
first in New Orleans, afterwards in Cincinnati ; and later resided 
in Cambridge, Mass. He died December, 1878, and his wife, 
May 13, 1885. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 13 

The third daughter was Ellex Kilsiiaw Fuller, born 
Aug. 7, 1820, who manied William E. Channing. 

Rev. Arthur Buckminstkr Fuller,* the third son of 
Hon. Timoth}' Fuller, was born August 10, 1822. He was early 
instructed by his father and his sister, Margaret Fuller. At the 
age of twelve, he spent one year at Leicester Academy; and, 
subsequently, studied with Mrs. IJipley, the wife of Rev. Samuel 
Ripley, of Waltham. In August, 1839, he entered Harvard 
College, at the age of seventeen, and graduated in 1843. During 
his college course he united Avith the church connected with 
the University. Immediately on graduation he purchased Bel- 
videre Academy, in Belvidere, Boone Co., Illinois, which, assisted 
by a competent corps of instructors, he taught for the two 
subsequent years. During this time, Mr. Fuller occasionally 
preached, as a missionary, in Belvidere and destitute places, 
and also to the established churches, having been interested in 
theological study during his senior year at college. He was a 
member of the Illinois Conference of Christian and Unitarian 
ministers, and by them licensed to preach. His first sermon 
was preached October, 1843, in Chicago, to the Unitarian 
church then under the charge of Rev. Joseph Harrington. In 
1845 Mr. Fuller returned to New England ; entered, one year 
in advance, the Harvard Divinity School, whence he grad- 
uated in August, 1847. After preaching three months at 
West Newton, to a church of which Hon. Horace Mann was a 
prin'jipal founder and a constant attendant, Mr. Fuller accepted 
a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian Societ}" in Manchester, 
N. H., and was subsequently ordained, March 29, 1848. In Sep- 
tember, 1852, Mr. Fuller received a call from the New North 
Church, on Hanover Street, in Boston, one of the most ancient 

* Rev. Mr. Fuller has collected most of the ancient records per- 
taining to the Fuller family. He has also in his possession an ancient 
chair, which tradition declares to have been brought from England 
to this country by the first Thomas Fuller, in 1638 ; and also a chair 
owned by Rev. Abraham Williams, of Sandwich. 



14 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

churches in the city, being founded in 1714, and a cliurch built 
that year on the spot where the present one now stands. This 
call Rev. Mr. Fuller refused, the relation between himself and 
the Manchester Society being a most happy one. The call Mas, 
however, renewed, and ultimately accepted, and Mr. Fuller was 
installed in Boston, June 1, 1853. Failing health, and the fact 
that the Protestant population was rapidly leaving the North 
End, induced Mr. Fuller to resign his city pastorate, and close 
his labors there July 31, 1S59. He accepted at once, however, 
a call for a six months' charge of the Unitarian Church in 
Watertown, Mass., having pieferred this temporary settlement 
to one of longer duration. In November, 1853, Mr. Fuller was 
chosen by the citizens of Ward 1, in Boston, a member of the 
School Committee, then a much smaller body than now, con- 
sisting of only twenty-four members. In January, 1854, Mr. 
Fuller was chosen by the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
tives chaplain of that body. In 1858 he was elected by the 
Massachusetts Senate their chaplain, both of Avhich appoint- 
ments he accepted, and discharged their duties. In 1855 Rev. 
Mr. Fuller was selected by the citizens of Groton, Mass., to 
deUver a bi-centennial oration, it being the two hundredth 
anniversary of the settlement of that ancient town. This ora- 
tion Avas delivered October 31, 1855. In 1857 Mr. P\iller was 
nominated, by the republicans of Suffolk District No. 2, for the 
Massachusetts Senate, but, with the other candidates of his 
party in that district, failed of an election. In 1858 Mr. Fuller 
was chosen by the State Temperance Convention a member of 
the Executive Committee, and in the same year was elected a 
director of the Washingtonian Home, better known as the 
Plome for the Fallen. Mr. Fuller's published writings are, 
"A Discourse in Vindication of Unitarianism from popular 
Charges against it," Manchester, 1848 ; " Sabbath School Man- 
ual of Christian Doctrines and Institutions," Boston, 1850 ; "A 
Discourse occasioned by the Death of Hon. Richard Hazen 
Ayer, delivered in the Unitarian Church, February 18, 1853 






Historical Notices of the Fuller Famili/. 15 

" An Historical Discourse, delivered in the New North Church, 
October!, 1854;" "A Discourse occasioned by the Death of 
Miss -Mercy Tufts, delivered in the Unitarian Church in 
Quiiicy, Mass., January 24, 1858; " " Liberty versus Romanism, 
or Konianism liostile to Civil and Religious Liberty, — being 
two Discourses delivered in the New North Church, Boston, 
1859." yir. Fuller has also edited four volumes of his sister 
Margaret's works, and has prepared for the press a complete 
and uniform edition of her works and memoirs.* August 1, 
1861, he received a commission as chaplain in the 16th regi- 
ment of Massachusetts Volunteers and immediately went to the 
front. After doing good service as a minister of religion and 
a friend to the living and dying, both in hospitals and on the 
field of battle, he volunteered as a soldier in the skirmishes 
which preceded the Battle of Fredericksburg, and was killed 
December 11, 1862. An account of his life was written by his 
brother Richard F. Fuller under the title "Chaplain Fuller," 
also by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in " Harvard Memorial 
Biographies." He was correspondent during his army service 
of the Boston Traveler, Boston Journal, Christian Inquirer and 
N. Y. Tribune. 

Richard Frederick Fuller was the fourth son. He grad- 
uated at Harvard University, 1844, studied law in Greenfield, 
Mass., afterwards a year at the Harvard Law School, and, 
having completed his studies in the office of his uncle, Henry 
H. Fullej-, Esq., in Boston, was admitted to the bar on exam- 
ination in open court, December, 1846, at the age of twenty-two. 
He became, and continued for two years to be, the law partner 
of his uncle, and subsequently practised law with success 
in Boston. Having been fitted for college, at the age of sixteen 
he entered a store in Boston, at the solicitation of his family ; 
but mercantile life proving distasteful to him, he relinquished it 

* These volumes are Woman in the Nineteenth Century, At Home 
and Abroad, Art, Literature, and the Drama, and Life Without and 
Life Within. 



16 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

at the end of one year. By severe application, he in six months 
made up for this lost year, at the same time keeping pace with 
the studies of the Sophomore class, and was admitted to college 
in the middle of the Sophomore year. He graduated the second 
or third scholar of his class. He died at his country home in 
Wayland, May 30, 1869. He had a taste for literature, was 
deeply religious, and an ardent lover of nature. One of his 
greatest pleasures was to walk in the earl}^ morning through 
woods and fields accompanied by his children. 

This ends our account of the children of Hon. Timothy 
Fuller. His brothers likewise attained distinction, and deserve 
now to be mentioned. 

Abraham Williams Fuller, the second son of Rev. 
Timothy Fuller, applied himself, on reaching manhood, to 
mercantile life. His strict application to business, his sagacity 
and integiity, speedily won the confidence of his employer, 
who, retiring from business about the time Abraham became of 
age, lent him an adequate capital, and set him up as his suc- 
cessor. The embargo, occuring at this time, caused a great 
rise in prices, and Abraham very soon acquired a large fortune. 
He at once relinquished mercantile business, studied the 
law, and had an ofiice in Boston till he died, April 6, 1847, 
unmarried, leaving a large property. A granite obelisk has 
been erected to his memory, near the tower, in Mount Auburn. 

The third son was Henry Holton Fuller, who graduated 
at Harvard College, 1811, the second scholar in his class, 
Edward Everett being the first, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar September 19, 1815. He went into partnership with his 
brother Timothy, and attained great distinction at the bar. He 
was a thorougli and careful lawyer, a sound logician, and had 
a sparkling fiow of wit and humor, which made him a great 
favorite with juries. "When he could not answer arguments, 
he could almost always throw a grotesque coloring over them, 
and bring them into ridicule, possessing a vein of cutting 
satire. He had a great run of business in court almost immedi- 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 17 

ately ; and at thirty years of age it was said that he had argued 
more cases than any lawyer of his age in Massachusetts. It 
was remarked that he never was counsel in a case where the 
jury did not wish to give him the verdict, if they could find 
a fair way to do so. In conversation he was genial and 
sprightly, affable and pleasant to all about him, and a universal 
favorite with his juniors. He was several years a representative 
from Boston in the Massachusetts legislature, and very efficient 
in its debates and the transaction of the j)ublic business. At 
his death, September 15, 1852, the bench and bar joined in 
a public tribute of eulogy to his memory. A granite obelisk in 
Mount Auburn, near the tower, beside the monument of Abra- 
ham W. Fuller, is erected to his memory. 

William Williams Fuller likewise graduated at Harvard 
College, in 1813, and studied law. He practised several 
years in Hallowell, ]\Ie., afterwards in Lowell, Mass., and ulti- 
mately in Oregon, 111. His mind was cool and deliberate, his 
judgment sound and reliable, and he obtained a very favorable 
reputation in his profession. He died at Oreg(Mi, 111., 1849, 
leaving an infant child, who survived but a few months. 

Elisiia Fuller, the youngest son, grad. at Harvard College, 
1815, and studied law. He practised at Lowell and after- 
wards at Worcester, Mass. He had a keenness of perception, 
a ready wit, and a sound knowledge of law, which won 
for him much success in practice. He was a person of 
remarkabl}'- buoyant temperament, and so cheerful and social 
a companion, that his advent was sure to banish gloom and low 
spirits, as sunshine dissipates the darkness. In person he closely 
resembled Henry, whose vivacity of discourse he also shared. 
Both were of rather small stature, with lively black eyes, and 
great sprightliness of manner. Elisha died the last of the five 
lawyers, 1855. Seldom in one generation has a family num- 
bered so many successful professional men as were the five 
brothers we have described. 



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GENEALOGY OF THE FULLER FAMILY. 

1 . Lieutenant Thomas Fuller, the first ancestor of this- 
family, married June 13, 1643, Elizabeth Tidd, probabl_y daugh- 
ter of John Tidd of Woburn. Subsequent to her deatli he 
married, August 25, 1684:, Sarah Wyraan, whose maiden name 
was Nutt. She died May 24, 1688, and he married a third 

wife Plannah . He died in 1698. In his will, dated 

June 9, 1698, and probated July 4, following, he makes bequests- 
to his daughters, Elizabeth Dean, Ruth Wilkins, and Deborah 
Shaw; grandson, David Richardson; grand-daughters, Ruth 
Wheeler and Bethiah Fuller ; and sons, Thomas, Benjamin,, 
and Jacob. 

His ch. were:— (2) Thomas', b. April 30, 1644; m. first 
Ruth Richardson, third daughter of Thomas and Mary Rich- 
ardson of Charlestown and Woburn, who was born April 14, 
1647; 2d Miss Durgy ; (3) Elizabeth^ b. Sept. 12, 1645; m. 
1662, Joseph Dean of Concord ;— (4) Ruth-, b. May 17, 1645;, 
m. Ist, Mr. Wheeler, by whom she had 1 ch. Ruth (who' 
married Mr. Foye) ; m. 2d, Mr. Wilkins; — (5) Deborah'^, b.. 
May 12, 1650; m. 1st, Isaac Richardson; 2d, Mr. Shaw ;— (6) 
John^ b. March 1, 1653; m. Miss Putnam; left no sons, but 
two daughters ;— (7) Jacob'-, b. May 14, 1655; m. Mary Bacon;; 
d. 1731 ; — (8) Joseph-, b. Aug. 8, 1658 ; d. young and unm.; — 
(9) Benjamin^ b. April 15, 1660; m. Sarah Bacon;— (10) 
Samuel-, b. May 9, 1662, d. young and unm. 

2. Thomas Fuller left 6 sons:— (11) Thomas^ m. Miss 
Buxton;— (12) Jonathan^ m. Miss Trask;— (13) John\ m. 
Miss Symonds;— (14) Joseph^ ra. Ist, Miss Buxton; 2d, Miss 
Damon ;— (15) William^, m. 1st, Miss Goodale ; 2d, Miss Hill;— 
(16) Stephen', m. Miss Moulton, but we have no account of his 
family. 

3. Elizabeth- Fuller m. Joseph Dean, who was b. about 
1638, having d. March, 1718, aged 80. Their ch. were:— 
Thomas, b. Sept. 15, 1664; m. 1st, Sarah BJanchard; 2.d^ 



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Jlistorlcal Notices of the Fuller Famihf. 19* 

Susannah ; Josej)!!, b. A])ril 5, IGO"; Daniel,!). Aiuil 21*,. 

1G09; Elizabeth, ni. ^Ir. AValker; Sarah, b. Aug. 4, UiTo; 
Deborah, b. Sept. 29, 1678; Hannah, b. Nov. 13, 1682; 
Benjamin. 

5. Deborah'^ Fuller, who m. Isaac Richardson, had 5 ch. : — 
David, ra. and had 3 ch. named Solomon, Hannah, and Bethiah ;. 
Benjamin ; Jonathan; Edward ; Mary, m. Mr. King. 

Mr. Shaw, the 2d husband of (5) Deborah* Fuller had by her 
2 ch. : — Daniel ; Ebenezer. 

7. Jacob- Fuller bad ch : — (17) Mary'', m. Mr. Whipple 
and left 8 ch, : — James, Jacob, and ]Mary ; — (18) Elizabeth\ m. 
Mr. Fisk and left 9 ch. : — Sarah, Elizabeth, Lucy, Mercy, Jona- 
than, Ebenezer, Jacob, William, Mary; — (19) Edward^ m. Miss 
Quarles, and left 7 ch. ; — (20) Sarah', m. Mr. Fisk, by whom 
she had 8 ch. : — Daniel, Jienjamin, Samuel, William, Josiah, 
Sarah, ]\Iartin, Hannah; — (21) Jacob', b. 1700, m. Abigail 
Holton* d. Oct. 17, 1767. 

9. Benjamin^ Fuller, who m. Sarah Bacon, left 6 ch. : — 
(22) SamueP, m. Miss Littiefield ;— (23) P]enjamin-', m. (31) 
Mary* Fuller;— (24) Sarah^ m. 1st, Mr. Felch, and had 2 ch., 
Deborah, and Daniel ; — (25) Ruth^ m. Mr. Smith, and had 10 
ch., James, Walter, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Elizabeth, 
Amos, Benjamin, and Abigail ; — (26) Abigail', m. Mr. Haywardv 
no account of her children ; — (27) Hannah'', ra. Ist, Mr. Swinton, 
and had 1 ch., Elizabeth ; m. 2d, Mr. Fowle, and had 2 ch., John, 
and Ebenezer. 

11. Thomas^ Fuller, who m. Miss Buxton, had by her 7 
ch. :— (28) Jolm^ d. in infancy ;— (29) Joseph* ;— (30) Timothy* ;. 
(31) Mary*, m. (23) Benjamin^ Fuller ;— (32) Ruth*;- (33) 
Betty* ;— (34) Lydia*. 

12. Jonathan^ Fuller, who m. Miss Trask, had 6 ch. : — 

* It is said that she was the only sister of Hon. Samuel Holton of 
Danvers. This may be so, tbougli her first ch. was born 9 years 
before Judge Holton. See a biographical notice of the latter in 
Hanson's History of Danvers, pp. 188-194. 



■20 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

s(35) Jonathan^ ;— (36) Sarah*;— (37) Eunice* ;— (38) Susanna*; 
—(39) Anna* ;— (40) Ruth*. 

13. John^ Fuller, who ra. Miss Syraonds, had 7 ch. : — (41) 
John*;— (42) Andrew* ;— (43) Ruth* ; — (44) David*; — (45) 

Ph(jebe* ;— (46) Jerusha* ;— (47) Elizabeth*. 

14. Joseph^ Fuller had 6 ch. :— (48) Ephraim* ; — (49) 
Amos* ;— (50) Joseph* ;— (51) Thomas* ;— (52) Rachel* ;— (53) 
Ruth*. 

15. William^ Fuller had 4 ch. :— (54) William* ;— (55) 
Nathan* ;— (56) Ruth* ;— (57) Jeremy*. 

19. Edward' Fuller, who m. Miss Quarles, left 7 ch. : — 
•<58) Josiah* ;— (59) Edward* ;— (GO) Ephraim*;— (61) Israel* ;— 
(62) Mary* ;— (63) Sarah* ;— (64) Benjamin*. 

21 . Jacob^ Fuller, by wife Abigail, had 10 ch., b. at Middle- 
ton, Mass. : — (65) Elisha*, b. Apr. 3, 1729, m. Elizabeth Putnam 
of Sutton, and had 1 son, (66) IsraeP, who d. before him, 
about Sept. 2, 1776, of the small-pox, at Bennington, Vt., while 
in the American army, as secretary to (84) Col. Archelaus 
Fuller, brother of (85) Rev. Daniel Fuller of Gloucester ; — (67) 
Ezi-a*, b. Nov. 8, 1731, d. 1765, unmarried ;— (68) Abigail*, b. 
Apr. 22, 1734, m. Dr. Bradstreet and had 1 ch., Ezra ;— (69) 
Elizabeth*, b. Apr. 22, 1734, m. Ebenezer Kimball, and left 7 
ch. : — Jacob, Betsey, Sally, Mehitabel, Abraham, Holton, Abi- 
gail ; — (70) Sarah*, b. June 30, 1737, was 2d wife of Samuel 
Devereaux of Marblehead ; — (71) Rev. Timothy*, b. May 18, 
1739, m. Oct. 31, 1771, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Abraham 
Williams of Sandwich; he d. July, 1805; she d. March, 
1822;— (72) Mehitabel*, b. Dec. 1, 1742, m. William Foster of 
Andover, Mass., by whom she had 5 ch. : — William, m. Phoebe 
Holt; Israel, d. a minor, iinm. ; Jacob, d. a minor, unm. ; Sally, 
married ; John, married ; — (73) Holton*, b. June 4, 1745, d. 
unm., Nov. 27, 1767 ; — (74) Jacob*, b. Jan. 3, 1748, m., 1st 
Margaret Devereaux, had 2 ch. who died young ; m. 2d, Jerusha 
Upton, no ch. ;— (75) David*, b. July 14, 1751, d. Nov. 6, 1821 ; 
m. Abigail Kimball, and left 1 ch. (76) AbigaiP, who m. Richard 
Osborn of Salem. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Famili/. 21 

22. SamueP Fuller, who m. Miss Littlefield, had 7 ch. : — 
(77) Samuel-*; — (78) James^; — (79) IJonjamin* ;— (KQ) Miriam*; 
—(81) Mary*;— (82) Abigail* ;— (83) Joshua*. 

23. Benjamin* Fuller, who m. (31) Mary* P^iller, left 5 
ch. : — (84) Col. Archelaus*, who m. Ist, Hannah Richardson,. 
Aug 10, 1752, m., 2d, Betsey (Dale) Putnam ; he died at Ben- 
nington, Vt., of small-pox, about 1777 (See No. GG) ; — (85) Kev. 
Daniel*, b. Sept. 1, 1740, grad. Harvard College, 1764 ; ordained 
at Gloucester, Mass., as colleague pastor with Rev. Richard 
Jaques, Jan. 10, 1770; resigned 1821; d. May 23, 1829; m. 
Hannah Bowers of Middleton, Conn. ; — (8G) Andrew*, grad.. 
Harvard College, 1765, resided at Peterborough, N. H. ; — (87) 
Elisha* ;— (88) Sarah*. 

7 1 . Rev. Timothy* Fuller, hy wife Sarah, dau. of ] vev. 
Abraham Williams, had ch. : — (89) Sarah^, d. unm. 1849, at 
Boston ; — (90) Nancy Buckminster^, m. Henry Titcomb, Esq., 
of Farmington, Me., d. Jan., 1859; — (91) Elizabeth^ d. unm.. 
at Augusta, Me., in 1856 ; — (92) Timothy^, b. in Chilmark^ 
Martha's Vineyard, July 11, 1778; m., 1809, Margaret Crane;, 
d. at Groton, Oct. 1, 1835 ;— (93) Anna^, d. in childhood ;— (94) 
Deborah AUen^, who m. Clifford Belcher of Farmington, Me., 
and still (1859) lives a Avidow, surviving all her brothers and 
sisters; — (95) Abraham Williams^, d unm. 1847; — (96) Martha 
Williams^ m. Simeon C. Whittier, of Hallowell, Me., d. 1852, 
leaving several children ; — (97) Henry Holton", b. at Princeton, 
Mass., July 1, 1790 ; grad. Harvard College, 1811 ; m. Mary 
Buckminster Stone of Framingham, d. Sept. 15, 1852, leav- 
ing one daughter, (98) Mary^, who m. David Cunningham 
of Boston and went to Texas to live. She had several children ;. 
— (99) William Williams% grad. Harvard College, 1813, d. at 
Oregon, 111., 1849 ;— (100) Elisha% b. at Princeton, Mass., Oct. 28, 
1794, grad. Harvard College, 1815, m. Susan Adams, d. at 
Worcester, 1855, leaving one son, (101) Dr. Henry Holton^ Fuller 
of CharlestOAvn, Mass., who m. Mary Washburn, of Lancaster,, 
Mass., and died leaving one son, (102) Henry Holton' Fuller, a 



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'22 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

la^fVyer, who m. June 7, 1900, at Brookline, Mass., Mary Colraan, 
dau. of George Ropes Harris ; a son, (108) Henry Holton^ F'uUer, 
was born in 1901. The two daughters of Elisha^ Fuller were (104) 
Susie Adams'^, who m. Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester, Mass., 
•and had 3 ch. : — Fanny Russell, who m. George Kettell of 
Charlestown, Mass., and had ch., Margaret Willard, and Russell 
Hawes; — Mary Forbusli ; — John Wheelock; and (105) Mary®,, 
who m. Moses D. Colby. 

84. Col. Archelaus* Fuller, by 1st wife Hannah, had ch. : — 
(IOC)) Elijah', d. unm. ; — (107) Sarah% d. young; — (108) 
Hannah'', m. Joseph Hutchinson, and had 4 sons, Elijah, Joseph, 
Archelaus, Levi. By his ^d wife, Betsey, he had: — (109) 
■Betty^, m. Nehemiah Putnam, and had one dau., Betty ; — (110) 
Sarah^ m. Eleazer Putnam, and had 2 ch., Sarah and Israel ; — 
(111) Mary^;— (112) Benjamin^ lived in P'ayette, Me.; — (113) 
IJanieP. 

85. Rev. DanieP Fuller of Gloucester, by wife Hannah, 
had ch. :— (114) Hannah Pcters% b. Oct. 6, 1771 ;— (115) DanieP, 
b. Aug. 27, 1773 ; resides at Bridgton, Me. ; — (116) Benjamin^, 
b. Feb. 27, 1776; begun business in Boston in 1798; m., 1st, 
Maria Beal ;— (117) Elijah% b. April 1, 1778 ;— (118) Archelau8^ 
b. Sept. 11, 1780;— (119) Samuel NewelP, b. Oct. 22, 1782;— 
<120) Mary^ b. Feb. 18, 1785;— (121) SaralP, b. Jan. 27, 1787. 

92. Hon. Timothy^ Fuller, by wife Margaret, had ch. : — 
(122) Sarah Margaret^ b. at Cambridge, Mass., May 23, 1810; 
m. Giovanni, Marchese Ossoli, and had one ch., Angelo Philip, 
b. at Rieti, Italy, Sept. 5, 1848; parents and child d. July 19, 
1850;— (123) Julia AdeIaide^ d. in childhood ;— (124) Eugene®, 
■b. at Cambridge, May 14, 1815, grad. Harvard College, 1834 ; ra. 
Mrs. Anna Eliza Rotta, a widow lady of New Orleans ; drowned, 
June 21, 1859;— (125) William Henry®, m. Feb. 28, 1840, 
PVances Elizabeth Hastings, whose mother was a Hammond, 
•a niece of Mrs. Craigie of Craigie House, Cambridge ; resided 
at Cambridge and in New York, where he d. Dec, 1878 ; — 
<126) Ellen Kilshavv®, m. Sept. 23, 1841, A^Tilliam Ellery 



Page 22, in 5th Hue, for George Kettell, read Charles 
Willard Kettell. 

In 7th line, for (105) Marf, read (105) Sarah Williams. 
At end of same paragraph insert : (100) Elisha had also 
a son Elisha, who died young. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Faviili/. 28 

Channing, son of Dr. Walter Channing of Boston ; d. Sept. 22, 
185G;— (127) Rev. Arthur Buckmiiister'', h. Au-^. 10, 1822, grad. 
Harvard College, 1843 ; m., 1st, Sept. 18, 1850, Elizabeth Godfrey 
Davenj)ort, of Mendoii, Mass., who d. March 4, 1856; ra., 2d, 
Emma Lucilla Reeves, of Wayland, Mass., Sept. 28, 1859 ; — 
(128) Richard Frederick^ grad. Harvard College, 1844 ; m., 1st, 
Sarah KoUock Batclielder, Feb. G, 1S49, who d., Jan. 10, 1856; 
m., 2d, Adeline Rutter Reeves, March 31, 1857; — (129) James 
Lloyd", d. unm., July 7, 1891 ;— (130) Edward Breck'', d. in 
childhood. 

124. Eugene'' Fuller left 5 ch. :— (131) Julia Margaret^ h. 
May 31, 1849; m. Sept., 1876, William James Lloyd of Potts- 
ville. Pa., grad. Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School ; 
—(132) Eugene Ossoli', b. Oct. SO, 1851, d. unm., 1878;— 
(133) William Channing", b. March 11, 1853, married;— (134) 
Clara", b. Feb. 27, 1854, d. unm., 1874;— (135) Ellen Kilshaw", 
b. 1856. 

125. William Henry*' F'uller, by wife Frances Elizabeth, 
had ch. :— (136) Cornelia", b. in Boston, Oct. 23, 1841 ; m. Henry 
Devens of Charlestown, Mass ^ died in Switzerland, Aug., 1901 ; 
had 4 ch. : — Winifred, d. young ; — Cornelia ; — Frances ; — Henry, 
d. unm. ;— (137) Margaret Ellen", b. July 20, 1843, m., Dec, 
1865, William Frothinghara of Boston ; d. Dec. 9, 1873 ; ha<l 
ch. : — Samuel, and a dau. who d. in infancy; — (138) William 
Henry", b. Dec. 12, 1844, d. Aug. 6, 1845 ;— (139) Frances 
Ehzabeth Hastings', m. Oct. 1, 1867, George Winthrop 
Folsora of New York City ;— (140) William Henry', b. Feb 12, 
1848, d. unm., at Omaha, Dec, 1870;— (141) Emily Roelker', 
b. June 30, 1849; m. April, 1871, Augustus A. Hayes of New 
York City; had 1 ch. :— Florence Rowan, b. 1872;— (142) 
Julian Ossoli^ b. Dec 27, 1851, d. unm., Dec 1893 ;— (143) 
Florence', m. April 2, 1888, Joseph Swift Whistler, of 
Baltimore, Md. 

126. Ellen Kilshaw® Fuller, who m. William Ellery 
Channing, had ch. : — Margaret Fuller, m. at Dorchester, Mass., 



24 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

Sept. 5, 1870, Thacher Loring of Brookline. Their ch.: — 

1. Lindsley, b. June 15, 1871, m. Charlotte Cochrane, and had 
ch:— William Ellery, b. July 26, 1890 ; Charlotte, b. Sept. 6, 1897. 

2. Alice, m. Dr. William Edwards of Boston, and had ch.: — Joseph 
Oliver, b. March 26, 1898. 

3. Margaret Channing. 

Caroline Sturgis, m. Sept. 20, 1865, Follen Cabot, son of 
Frederick and Marianne Cabot of Brookline. Their ch : — 

1. Chilton, b. Oct. 11, 1866, m. at Concord, Nov. 23, 1891, Louise 
Partridge Richardson, daughter of Samuel W. and Florence Richard- 
son of Concord, and had ch. : — Chilton Richardson, b. at Waltham, 
Dec. 12, 1895 ; Louise, b. at Waltham, June 13, 1897 ; Harold, b. at 
Waltham, Nov. 28, 1899. 

2. Walter Channing, b. Nov. 15, 1867, m., June, 1900, Elinore, 
daughter of Charles Follen Blake of Portsmouth, N. H. 

3. Follen, b. April 14, 1869 ; m. Oct., 1896, Edith Tufton, daughter 
of Charles Follen Blake of Portsmouth, N. H. ; had ch. : — Eleanor, 
b. in N. Y., Feb. 10, 1898. 

4. Harold, b. April 22, 1870 ; d. April 11, 1885. 

5. John Higginson, b. April 10, 1877. ; grad. Harvard College, 1901. 

Walter, b. April 14, 1849, m. at Jamaica Plain, June 25, 1878, 
Anna Kast Morse, and had ch. : — Walter, b. April 28, 1879 ; — 
Henry Morse, b. Aug. 17, 1880; — Barbara; — Hayden, b. March 
6, 1886 ; — Rosalie. 

Giovanni Eugene, b. June 23, 1853 ; m. in Washington, D. C.,, 
1880, Florence McClellan. In 1902 was living in San Francisco, 
Cal. ; had ch. :— George Thacher, b. 1881 ;— John, b. 1887. 

Edward, b. June 15, 1856 ; m. July -22, 1886, Alice Thacher, 
daughter of Peter and Margaret (Potter) Thacher, of Newton. 
In 1902 was living in Cambridge. Children: — Alice; — Eliza^ 
beth Torrey. 

127. Rev. Arthur Buckminister® Fuller, by wife Elizabeth 
Godfrey (Davenport) had 2 ch. : — (144) Edith Davenport" ; — 

(145) Arthur Ossoli" ; by wife Emma Lucilla (Reeves), 2 ch. : — 

(146) Richard Buckminster' ; — (147) Alfred Buckminster". 

128. Richard Frederick*' Fuller, by wife Sarah Kollock 
(Batchelder) had ch. : — (148) Frederick Timothy" ;— (149) 
Sarah Margaret', d. young ; — (150) Arthur Angelo", d. young * 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 25 

— (151) Grace". By wife Adeline \\. (Reeves) he hadcli.: — 
(152) Eugene"; — (153) Waldo" ;— (154) Ernest" ; — (155) 
Margaret" ; — (156) Gertrude". 

1 37. Margaret Ellen" Fuller, who ni. William Frothinghani, 
had 1 son, Samuel Fi'otliingham, b. Aug. 8, 1868, m. Ajiril, 
1896, Eleanor Meyer, daughter of George Meyer, and sister 
of Hon. George von L. Meyer of IJoston, and had ch. : — 
Samuel, b. June, 1897 ;— Donald McCloud, b. April 7, 1900; 
— Helen. 

139. Frances Elizabeth Hastings' Fuller, m. George W. 
Folsom and had ch. : — Helen Stuyvesant, ni. Hev. Churchill 
Satterlee, Nov. 1, 1898, had child : — Henry Yates Satterlee, 
b. April 8, 1900, at Morganton, N. C. ; — George Winthrop, b. 
Sept. 21, 1869, d. April 7, 1S75 ;— William Fuller, b. June 3, 
1871, d. April 19, 1875 ;—Etheldred ;— George, b. April 15, 1875, 
d. May 15, 1876 ;— Margaret Winthrop, m. May 19, 1900, Lieut. 
Sidney Haight, U. S. A., had 1 ch.: — Sidney Coolidge Haight, 
b. Feb. 23, 1901, at Lenox, Mass. ; — Maud Christine; — Winifred ; 
— Georgette ; — Frances Constance. 

141 . Emily Roelker" Fuller, who married A. A. Hayes, had 
a daughter, Florence Rowan Hayes, m. in 1893, Alwyn A. 
Alvord of San Francisco, Cal. 

144. Edith Davenport' Fuller is now (1902), librarian of 
the Episcopal Theological School, in Cambridge, Mass. 

145. Arthur Ossoli" Fuller, b. Feb. 15, 1856. Graduated 
from Harvard College, 1877. Practised law in Exeter, N. H., 
where he is living in 1902. Nov. 19, 1884, he m. in Cambridge, 
Ellen Minot, daughter of George Minot and Elizabeth (Dawes) 
Minot. His ch. are : — (157) Margaret Crane-, b. Sept. 29, 
1885 ;— (158) Constanee^ b. Dec. 14, 1886 ;— (159) Elizabeth 
Minot^ b. May 2, 1888 ;— (160) Arthur Davenpo^t^ b. Sept. 1, 
1889;— (161) George Minot«, b. Aug. 24, 1891 ;— (162) Faith 
Greenleaf*, b. Dec. 3, 1892 ;— (163) Kenneth Eliot^ b. March 9, 
1894. 

146. Richard Buckrainster' Fuller, b. Feb. 13, 1861; was 



26 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family, 

a member of class of 1883, Harvard College, and in 1902 lives in. 
Milton, Mass. He m. at Chicago, April 30, 1891, Caroline Wolcott 
Andrews, daughter of Martin and Caroline (Wolcott) Andrews. 
His children are : — (164) Caroline Leslie^ b. Aug. 13, 1892 ; — 
(165) Richard BuckminsterS b. July 12, 1895 ;— (166) Wolcott^ 
b. Nov. 12, 1898. 

147. Alfred Buckminster^ Fuller, b. Feb. 12, 1863 ; m. at 
St. Albans, Vt, Oct. 7, 1897, Pauline (Hockaday) Lane, widow 
of Albert Lane, of Parkersburg, West Va., and daughter of 
Isaac O Hockaday and Sarah G. (Gleim) Hockaday of Fulton, 
Mo. Pie now lives in Melrose, Mass. 

148. Frederick Timothy' Fuller, b. in Salem, Sept. 11, 
1850, grad. Harvard College, 1870 ; m. in Wayland, Nov. 2, 1871, 
Ella Jane Sherman ; children, (167) Mabel Warren^ b. Aug. 5, 
1872;— (168) Clara Margaret^, b. May 8, 1877 ;— (169) Lucy^ 
b. April 2, 1879, m. June 2, 1902, Philip Cabot, son of J. Elliot 
Cabot of Brookline, Mass ; — (170) Edwin Sherman^b. May 27, 
1885 ;— (171) Richard Frederick^ b. March 22, 1887 ;— (172) 
Willard Perrin^ b. May 27, 1888. 

161. Grace'', m. at Cambridge, Nov. 25, 1874, Benjamin 
Marvin Fernald of Exeter, N. H., now living in Melrose. 
Children :— Ethel, b. Sept. 12, 1877;— Paul Fuller, b. Feb. 9, 
d. April 22, 1895 ;— Margaret, b. May 5, 1896. 

1 62. Eugene^ b. May 8, 1858, grad. Harvard College, 1880, 
and from Harvard Medical School. Is now practising medicine 
in New York City. He m. in Victoria, B. C, May 23, 1890, 
Margaret Elizabeth MacTavish, daughter of Duncan Archibald 
and Margaret EUza (Wotherspoon) MacTavish. Children : — 

(173) Dorothy Margaret^ b. Oct. 13, 1891, d. May 11, 1892 ;— 

(174) Duncan MacTavish^ b. Aug. 13, 1893;— (175) Eugenia 
May% b. May 13, 1895;— (176) Richard Eugene^ b. June 1, 
1897. 

1 53. Waldo' Fuller, b. May 30, 1861, grad. Harvard College, 
1883. He lived for a time in Telluride, Colorado, and is now: 
in New York City. 



Page 26 (151), in 3rd line, read Paul Fuller, b. Feb. 9, 
1893. 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 27 

1 54. Ernest" Fuller, h. July 13, 1863. In 1902 is at Cripple 
Creek, Colorado. 

155. Margaret" Fuller, m. at Cambridge, ^Marcli 30, 1892, 
Philip Mar(juand, son of John Phillips and .Margaret (Curzon) 
Marquand of New York City, formerly of Newhuryport, Mass. 
Cliild :— John Phillips, b. Nov. 10, 1893. 

156. Gertrude" Fuller, m. at Cambridge, Sept. 25, 1895, 
Arthur Boylston Nichols, son of Frederick Spelman and 
Elizabeth (Humphrey) Nichols of Boston. Children : — Arthur 
Boylston, b. June 27, 1896, d. Oct. 8, 1896 ;— Elizabeth Hum- 
phrey, b. Dec. 13, 1897;— Arthur Boylston, b. April 26, 1900; 
a son, b. July 7, 1902. 



BUCKMIXSTER FAMILY OF FRAMINGHAM. 

The Buckminsters of Framlngham were prominent for a long 
time in the history of that region before it was incorporated as 
a town and afterwards. They held civil and military positions 
of many kinds. Thomas Buckmaster, as the name was at first 
written, probably came from Wales, and is named in the Colonial 
Records, April 30, 1640, when he received a grant from the Gen. 
Court. He was made a freeman, 16-46. His will is recorded 
in Suffolk Probate, dated Sept. 2, 1656. He lived in Muddy 
River (Brookline). 

The direct line of descent as regards the Fuller family runs 
thus: — (1) Thomas Buckmaster had son (2) Joseph, already 
called Buckminster in deed dated July 23, 1660. 

2, Joseph married Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh Clarke. Their 
children were (3) Joseph, b. July 31, 1666; Elizabeth. 

3. Col. Joseph, son of (2) Joseph, married Martha Sharp, 
dau. of John Sharp of Muddy River (Brookline), May 12, 1686. 
His children were eight in number, among them was (4) Joseph, 
b. 1697, (3) Col. Joseph Buckminster was proprietor of lands 
in Framinofham, 1693. The date of his removal to Framingham 



•28 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

is unknown. He was selectman in 1700, and for seventeen years 
in all ; was representative twelve years; in the commission of the 
peace many years. His estate was large, and the title to 
it involved him in lawsuits protracted after his death. He 
held several military commissions, commanded a company of 
grenadiers in Sir Charles Hobby's regiment in the expedition 
to Port Royal, and subsequently had command of a regiment of 
the Colonial militia. He Avas tall and athletic, of great physical 
power, and of a resolute spirit. He died April 5, 1747. He m. 
2d, Martha Dale of ]3aston. He held slaves, for an account of 
which see Barry and Temple. Numerous deeds from him are 
in the Suffolk and Middlesex registries. 

4. Col. Joseph Buckminster, Jr., was the father of Anna, or 
Anne, b. Dec. 3, 1728, who m. Rev. Abraham Williams of 
Marlborough and Sandwich. After passing through subordinate 
ranks he received his commission as colonel. He was for 
twenty- eight years selectman, thirty-two years town clerk, 
representative nineteen (perhaps twenty-eight) years. After 
a long life of personal worth and public service he died May 
15, 1780. One of his sons, William, commanded the company 
of Minute-men of Barre, Mass., at Bunker Hill. Became colonel ; 
d. 1786. (Biog. sketch, Worcester Magazine, I. 79.) 

Sources : Barry, William : History of Framinghmn and Temple 
Post, 1847 ; and Temple, Josiah H: History of Framingham, 1887. 

WILLIAMS FAMILY. 

1 . Abraham Williams became a proprietor of Marlborough 
in 1663. He had already been admitted freeman in 1652. He 
married Joanna Ward, dau. of William and Elizabeth Ward, and 
settled in Marlborough, near the pond, at the place long known as 
" Williams Tavern " (still standing, 1902). He represented the 
town in the General Court, and died Dec. 29, 1712. His widow 
died Dec. 8, 1718, aged 90. The record of his family is very 
defective, but his will or deed of gift supplies some of the 



Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 29 

defects in the records. It is dated Dec. "I'S, 171 'J. Tliis first 
Abraham Williams is probably the Lieutenant Williams whose 
commission, signed by Sir Edward Andros and dated Feb. 12, 
1686-87, but unfortunately omitting Christian name, is in the 
possession of the editor of this revised edition of the Fuller 
genealogy. Abraham AVilliams had children : — Elizabeth ; 
(2) William ; John ; Lydia. 

2. William Williams d. Aug. 30, 1702 ; he may have been 
the owner of the above mentioned commission, lie had chil- 
dren : — Thomas, d. in infancy ; (3) Abraham, b. April 15, 1695. 

3. Col. xlbraham Williams m, Jan. 5, 1715, Prudence Howe, 
dau. of Thomas and Sarah. She d. Jan. 16, 1725, and he m. 
2d, Dec. 22, 1725, Elizabeth Brack, dau. of Rev. Robert Breck. 

She d. Jan. 13, 1729, and he m. Elizabeth , who d. 1775. 

He was a prominent citizen, filled manj'^ town ofiices, and was 
justice of the peace. In 1757 he organized and commanded as 
captain a companj' to serve against the French and Indians. lie 
attained the rank of colonel, and in 1775, at the age of 80, com- 
manded the 3d regiment of militia of Middlesex and Worcester 
counties. He probably did not serve in the Revolutionary War 
on account of his great age. He d. July 10, 1781. He had 
numerous children (see Hudson), among them (4) Rev. Abraham 
Williams, minister of Sandwich, Mass., b. Feb. 25, 1727. 

4. Rev. Abraham Williams was Fellow of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences. He strongly favored the Revolution. 
Two of his sons died in British prison ships. His slaves Titus Win- 
chester and Phebe were bought in Frammgham, and the bills of 
sale are still preserved by the editor. Titus refused manumission 
and stayed with his master until the latter died. A poem read 
at the < Quarter-Millennial celebration of Sandwich and Bourne 
in 1889, mentions Titus as keeping order among the boys in Rev. 
Abraham Williams's church. Freed by the will of his master, 
Titus served in various capacities on sailing vessels and accumu- 
lated some property. At his death he left a bequest for a clock 
to be placed on the church. This clock has recently been 



'30 Historical Notices of the Fuller Family. 

replaced by a new one, but is still preserved in the vestry of 
the church (190-2). 

Sources : Hudson, Charles : History of Marlborough ; 8fc. 



CRANE FAMILY. 

The first immigrant was Henry Crane of Dorchester, Eng- 
land. This was before the town of Canton had a separate 
existence and while it was still a part of Dorchester. The 
direct line, until joining the Fuller family, was as follows : — 
1. Henry had son (2) William, who m. Abigail Puffer. William 
had son (3) Henry. 

3. Henry Crane, who lived at Packeen in Canton, was the son 
of William and Abigail (Puffer) Crane ; he was b. May 6, 1719, 
and m. Abigail Lyon, Nov. 29, 1744. He was a warden of the 
English Church and its constant friend and supporter. He d. 
Jan. 4, 1804. Henry Crane had son Major (4) Peter Crane, b. 
1752. The latter was a gunsmith, and prover of arms for the 

county of Norfolk in 1813. He m. Abigail , and had dan. 

Margaret, b. Feb. 15, 1789, who m. Hon. Timothy Fuller of 
Cambridge, May 28, 1809. 

Peter Crane served in the Revolution, was major and adjutant 
in the 24th regiment of Massachusetts line commanded by Col. 
John Greaton. He d. Dec. 6, 1821. 

On the triangular piece of land situated in South Canton, 
bounded by Neponset, Church, and Washington Streets, stood, 
in 1786, the house of Peter Crane. Between 1834 and 1837 
this house was removed to the Revere Copper Yard, Canton 
Dale, and became the homestead of the Revere family. 

Source : Huntoon, Daniel T. V. : History of Canton. Camhridg 
1893. 

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